How many strategies had he prepared?
When Rika asked him that question, Qingyu was honestly a little stumped.
He had no idea how to answer it...
Thanks to the system's hints, he had known that his opponents in the Gym assessment would most likely be Rika and her Clodsire.
After that, he had spent quite a bit of time every day figuring out how to counter them.
Clodsire only had so many moves, and he had devised countermeasures for every one he could think of. But since this was his first battle against an Elite Four-level opponent, he hadn't really felt confident...
In the end, the battle had indeed proved one thing:
Against overwhelming strength, tactics might help-but probably not enough.
His type-lockdown strategy had certainly given Rika a headache, and his counters to the various moves she might use had worked, but winning with those alone had still been far too difficult.
The moment he discovered that Clodsire had used Stockpile, his prebattle plans had fallen apart. From then on, he had basically been improvising to salvage the whole mess.
Fortunately, Riolu had been decisive enough, too. And if Rika hadn't left an opening for him to exploit, winning would probably have been next to impossible...
Was this really a level that a rookie like him could overcome?
At that thought, Qingyu couldn't help wondering whether something was wrong with the system's assessment of mission difficulty.
According to the mission description, he had to defeat at least one of Rika's Pokémon just to pass...
How on earth had the other Gym Leaders passed this assessment?
Was he the only useless one?
"All right, we can leave that question for another time."
Seeing the shifting expressions on Qingyu's face, Geeta stepped forward at just the right moment and broke